The Original Plan For The Now Infamous WWE RAW "Anonymous General Manager" Angle Has Been Revealed
While appearing on Eric Bischoff's podcast, former WWE Superstar Hornswoggle explained what the company originally wanted to do with the anonymous RAW GM storyline from a few years back...
Back in 2010, WWE began a new storyline involving an Anonymous RAW General Manager who would control what went down on the show by sending emails to a laptop, which were then read on-screen by spokesperson, Michael Cole.
This went on for a while before the GM was revealed to be none other than Hornswoggle (real name Dylan Mark Postl), who had dropped his previous leprechaun persona. However, after just one TV appearance the entire angle fizzled out, and eventually The Authority took over and began calling the shots.
Fans have often wondered why this initially intriguing storyline never went anywhere, and now we know what actually happened.
Postl appeared on Eric Bischof's podcast and revealed that the original idea was for him to stay on in the role as a heel GM from New Jersey - however, things didn't exactly go to plan:
“I get a call from one of the writers and they say, 'How is your New Jersey accent?' I said, 'I can’t do accents, man.' He said, 'Well start.' I said, 'Ok.' He goes, 'You’re going to be Big Nick from Jersey and you’re going to be the RAW GM. You’re not going to be Hornswoggle. You pulled the wool over all the kids and their parents’ eyes and you’re going to be a heel GM.' I said, 'This is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.' My character wasn’t talking at the time so I said, 'So now I can talk and I’m a heel and I am somehow from New Jersey?' He goes, 'Yeah!' I said, 'And this makes sense?' And he goes, 'YEAH!' So I said, 'Ok… I will learn a Jersey accent.'
I tried and tried and tried and couldn’t do it. Before the show we were doing rehearsals in the ring and while it’s going on two of my best friends, Curt Hawkins and Kofi Kingston, are sitting in the stands watching me fail miserably in these rehearsals with this terrible accent. Finally they just cut the microphone and just said it was awful. It was so bad. Something that was supposed to be a major heel GM run for several months turned out to be this one night and for nothing. It sucked. It really sucked because I could have talked and been a heel and that’s always something I wanted to do in my WWE run.”
You can hear more from Hornswoggle on the matter below.